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Terms of Service

debAIt

Version 1.1 — Effective [EFFECTIVE DATE]

These Terms of Service are written in English. A Spanish translation may be provided for convenience; the English version controls in the event of any conflict, except where mandatory local law provides otherwise (see Section 25).

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY. Section 22 contains a binding individual arbitration agreement, a jury-trial waiver, and a class-action waiver that affect your legal rights for most adult users in the United States, including how claims against us are resolved. You have a 30-day right to opt out of arbitration (Section 22.7). Special rules apply to minors and to consumers in Mexico, whose non-waivable rights are preserved (Sections 22.9–22.10). Section 9 describes how we record and process your voice, and Section 12 contains an auto-renewal disclosure for paid subscriptions.

1. Agreement & Who We Are

1.1 Who we are. debAIt is operated by [LEGAL ENTITY NAME], a Texas (USA) limited liability company, with a registered address at [REGISTERED ADDRESS] ("debAIt," "we," "us," or "our"). Our service is available at https://getdebait.com.

1.2 Contact. For general support: [SUPPORT EMAIL]. For legal and formal notices: [LEGAL/NOTICE EMAIL]. For privacy requests: [PRIVACY EMAIL]. For copyright matters: [DMCA EMAIL] (see Section 7.7).

1.3 What these Terms cover. These Terms of Service (the "Terms") form a legally binding agreement between you and debAIt governing your access to and use of our websites, applications, debate platform, AI judging features, social features, subscriptions, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). Our Privacy Policy and Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") are incorporated into these Terms by reference. For school deployments, the Minors & Schools Addendum and any separate school license agreement also apply (Section 14).

1.4 Acceptance. By creating an account, clicking to accept, or otherwise accessing or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1.5 Binding nature; who is bound. If you use the Service on behalf of an organization (such as a school or business), you represent that you have authority to bind that organization, and "you" includes that organization. For users under the age of majority, see Sections 3 and 14.

1.6 Changes. We may change these Terms as described in Section 23.

2. Definitions

For purposes of these Terms:

"Account" means your registered user account on the Service.
"AI Output" means any automated output generated by artificial-intelligence systems used in the Service, including debate topics and motions, briefs, transcriptions, per-turn scores, rationales, confidence values, and final verdicts.
"Callsign" / "Username" means your unique public identifier (3–20 characters, alphanumeric plus underscore), which is immutable for 90 days after any change. We use the terms "Callsign" and "Username" interchangeably.
"Content" means any text, audio recordings, transcripts, images, media, posts, comments, messages, or other materials.
"User Content" means Content that you or other users submit, upload, transmit, record, or create through the Service.
"debAIt+" means our optional paid subscription described in Section 12.
"debAIt for Schools" / "Schools" means the licensed, sales-led deployment of the Service to educational institutions described in Section 14.
"School" means an educational institution that has entered into a school license agreement with debAIt.
"Student" means an individual who accesses the Service through a School deployment, who may be a minor.
"Verdict" means an AI-generated outcome, score, or determination affecting a user's standing in a debate.
"Virtual Items" means XP, levels, achievements, unlockable avatars, frames, ranks, leaderboard positions, monthly awards, and similar in-platform gamification elements.
"Subprocessor" / "Third-Party Service" means a third party that provides infrastructure or processing used to operate the Service (see Section 15).
"Personal Data" / "Personal Information" means information that identifies, relates to, or could reasonably be linked with you, as defined under applicable privacy law.

3. Eligibility & Age

3.1 Minimum age for public signup (16+). To create an Account through public self-signup, you must be at least 16 years old. By creating an Account, you represent and warrant that you are 16 or older. This minimum aligns with the digital-consent age default under the EU/UK GDPR (Article 8); where a stricter local age of digital consent applies, you must meet it.

3.2 Under 16 — schools only. Individuals under 16 may access the Service only through a licensed School deployment, with the School's authorization and with parental or guardian consent obtained as required by applicable law. We do not knowingly permit individuals under 16 to create public Accounts.

3.3 Children under 13 (COPPA). Within the Schools product, where the Service is made available to children under 13 in the United States, verifiable parental consent under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA, 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501–6506) and its implementing rule is obtained by the School (acting on parents' behalf consistent with the FTC's school-consent guidance) or directly by the parent or guardian, before the child uses the Service. We will not knowingly collect personal information from a child under 13 outside an authorized School relationship. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us personal information without authorization, contact [PRIVACY EMAIL] and we will delete it.

3.4 Capacity and authority. You represent that you have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms or, if you lack such capacity, that a parent, guardian, or authorized School representative who has such capacity has agreed to these Terms on your behalf.

3.5 Geographic availability. The Service is operated from the United States, with early product availability in Mexico, and is offered in English and Spanish. We make no representation that the Service is appropriate or available in any particular location. You are responsible for compliance with local laws.

4. Accounts & Security

4.1 Registration. To use most features, you must register an Account. We require a unique email address and a unique Username, and we collect a display name (optional, shown publicly) and other profile information you provide. Authentication is delegated to our authentication provider (Supabase Auth); we do not store your password in our application database. You may also register or sign in using Google or Discord OAuth, in which case basic profile information (such as your email and a system-generated Username) is created from that provider's metadata. By using OAuth sign-in, you authorize the transfer of that profile information to us as described in the Privacy Policy.

4.2 Accurate information. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information and to keep it updated. You may not impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation.

4.3 Credentials and responsibility. You are responsible for safeguarding your credentials and for all activity under your Account. Notify us immediately at [SUPPORT EMAIL] of any unauthorized use. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for losses arising from your failure to secure your Account.

4.4 Username rules. Your Username is a public identifier used across profiles, leaderboards, and follow lists. After a change, your Username is locked for 90 days. We may reclaim or require changes to Usernames that are misleading, infringing, abusive, or that impersonate others.

4.5 Email verification. Depending on configuration, we may require you to verify your email address before your Account becomes active.

4.6 One person, one Account. Accounts are for individual use unless designated as a School, teacher, or brand Account. Certain features are gated by internal roles ("user," "teacher," "brand," "admin"). We may designate internal or simulator accounts for testing, which are excluded from competitive standings and awards.

5. The Service

5.1 What the Service includes. The Service currently offers:

Live voice debates between users, in which audio from participant microphones is captured, transcribed, and scored;
AI judging, including AI-generated debate topics/motions and briefs, per-turn scoring, and final verdicts that affect your standing;
Social features, including public profiles, a feed with posts and comments, reactions, mentions and hashtags, friends and followers, direct messages, and live co-presence "lobbies";
Gamification, including XP, levels (1–100), ranks, Elo ratings, achievements, unlockable avatars and frames, leaderboards, and monthly awards (Section 13);
debAIt+, an optional paid subscription (Section 12); and
debAIt for Schools, a licensed deployment for educational institutions (Section 14).

5.2 The Service may change. We are continually developing the Service. We may add, modify, suspend, or discontinue features (including AI models used for judging, beta features, and gamification mechanics) at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law and to any paid commitments under Section 12. Some features are offered in beta or test mode and may be unstable, incomplete, or provided free during a beta period (Section 12.9).

5.3 No guaranteed availability. The Service is provided on an "as available" basis (Section 19).

6. License to Use the App

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and use the Service for your personal, non-commercial use (or, for Schools, for the institution's authorized educational use). This license does not grant you any rights in our software, trademarks, or content except as expressly stated. We reserve all rights not expressly granted.

7. User-Generated Content

7.1 You own your User Content. As between you and debAIt, you retain all ownership rights you have in your User Content, including your posts, comments, messages, profile information, audio recordings, and transcripts of your own speech.

7.2 License you grant to us. To operate, provide, and maintain the Service, you grant debAIt a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license — sublicensable solely to our Subprocessors to provide the Service, and assignable only in connection with a permitted assignment of these Terms under Section 25.1 — to host, store, reproduce, transmit, display, perform, adapt, and create technical modifications of your User Content. This license exists only to: (a) operate, maintain, secure, and provide the Service; (b) display your User Content to the audiences you direct (for example, the debate participants, spectators, recipients of your messages, or the public, according to your visibility settings); (c) generate AI Output such as transcriptions, moderation results, scores, and verdicts as described in Sections 8 and 9; and (d) maintain, troubleshoot, and improve the Service. This license ends when you or we delete the relevant User Content, except (i) for content retained by other users (for example, a direct message you sent remains accessible to its recipient), (ii) for content that must be retained for legal, security, audit, or dispute-resolution purposes (including immutable verdict records and forensic logs that are intentionally not deleted on account deletion), and (iii) for residual copies in routine backups.

7.3 Improvement of the Service. The license above includes the right to use your User Content to maintain and improve the Service. We do not use your User Content (including audio or transcripts) to train debAIt's own generative artificial-intelligence or machine-learning models except with your separate, conspicuous opt-in consent where required by law. Third-party AI providers process your Content to deliver the features described in Sections 8, 9, and 15 under their own terms and our data-processing agreements with them.

7.4 Your representations and warranties. You represent and warrant that: (a) you own or have all necessary rights in your User Content; (b) your User Content and our authorized use of it do not and will not infringe or misappropriate any third party's intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or other rights, or violate any law or these Terms; and (c) you have obtained any consents necessary for recordings or content involving other people (Section 9).

7.5 Our right to moderate and remove. We may, but are not obligated to, monitor, review, screen, filter, or moderate User Content. We may remove, restrict, refuse, or disable access to any User Content, and limit or suspend Accounts, that we reasonably believe violate these Terms, the AUP, or applicable law, or that may expose debAIt or others to harm or liability. You acknowledge that, as of the Effective Date, much User Content (posts, comments, direct messages, mentions) is not subject to automated pre-publication filtering, and that debate transcripts undergo automated moderation as described in Section 8.6. Moderation decisions may be imperfect, including false positives and false negatives (Section 8.6).

7.6 No obligation to store. We do not guarantee that any User Content will be stored, retained, or available. You are responsible for keeping your own copies. Subject to law, we may delete User Content, including upon Account termination.

7.7 Copyright / DMCA (17 U.S.C. § 512). We respect intellectual-property rights and respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Send notices to our designated agent: [DMCA AGENT NAME], [DMCA EMAIL], [REGISTERED ADDRESS]. A valid notice must include the elements required by 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3). We may remove allegedly infringing material, provide counter-notice procedures under § 512(g), and terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the Accounts of repeat infringers consistent with § 512(i). Misrepresentations in a notice or counter-notice may give rise to liability under § 512(f).

8. AI and Automated Outputs

8.1 AI Output is automated. Debate topics and motions, briefs, transcriptions, per-turn scores and rationales, confidence values, and final verdicts are produced by automated artificial-intelligence systems, including third-party large-language-model and speech-to-text providers (Section 15). AI Output is generated without human authorship of each result.

8.2 AI Output may be wrong, incomplete, or biased. AI Output may contain errors, omissions, "hallucinations," mis-transcriptions, mis-scoring, or bias, including bias related to language, dialect, accent, or expression. Transcription quality is estimated automatically and may be marked high, medium, or low; verdicts may be rendered on partial transcripts when one or more turns failed to transcribe, and such verdicts are flagged accordingly. Confidence values are estimates, not guarantees of correctness.

8.3 "AS IS"; no reliance. AI Output is provided "AS IS" and for the operation of the debate and entertainment features only. You should not rely on AI Output for any consequential decision, and AI Output is not professional, legal, academic, medical, or psychological advice.

8.4 Not official credentials. Verdicts, scores, ranks, XP, levels, achievements, and awards are not academic credentials, certifications, or official assessments, except where a licensed School chooses to issue a grade, diploma, report, or credential through the Schools product, in which case the School — not debAIt — is the issuing and responsible authority for that credential (Section 14).

8.5 Human review and verdict finality. AI judging operates without routine human review of individual verdicts, and AI verdicts are final automated outputs for purposes of the Service. We surface confidence signals and support-escalation hooks; if you believe a verdict resulted from a technical error or wrongful moderation, you may contact [SUPPORT EMAIL], and we may, at our discretion and where feasible, review or re-run affected debates. Nothing in this Section creates an obligation to provide a formal appeal.

8.6 Automated moderation; limitations. Debate transcripts are screened by automated moderation. Only a defined set of severe categories (such as hate, threats, sexual content involving minors, self-harm intent or instructions, and illicit/violent content) cause a turn to be excluded from final judging; other flags may suppress spectator captions only. Automated moderation is known to produce false positives, particularly on heated political, religious, or social topics that are the Service's core subject matter, and false negatives. You acknowledge these limitations. If you believe a turn was wrongly moderated or excluded, contact [SUPPORT EMAIL].

8.7 Identity-blind judging; integrity controls. Our AI judging is designed to be identity-blind (participant identities are withheld from the judging model and turns are anonymized and position-shuffled) and applies adversarial-input filtering to resist prompt injection. These controls reduce but do not eliminate the risk of error or bias. Filtering may alter or omit portions of submitted text before processing.

8.8 No professional relationship. Use of AI Output does not create any attorney-client, doctor-patient, educator-student (outside the Schools product), or other professional relationship between you and debAIt.

9. Voice & Recordings

9.1 Consent to record and transcribe. To use the live debate and judging features, you consent to the capture, recording, processing, transcription, moderation, and AI scoring of audio from your microphone during debates. Audio is recorded from participant microphones, uploaded to private storage, transcribed by a third-party speech-to-text provider (with the debate motion supplied as a transcription prompt), moderated, and used to generate scores and verdicts. If you do not consent, do not participate in voice debates.

9.2 Purpose limitation. We use your voice recordings and transcripts solely for the debate, transcription, moderation, judging, fairness-auditing, dispute-review, safety, and Service-operation purposes described in these Terms and the Privacy Policy. We do not use your voice as a biometric identifier to identify you beyond these stated transcription and judging purposes.

9.3 Retention and deletion. Raw audio recordings are stored in private storage and automatically deleted approximately 30 days after the debate (to allow dispute review and fairness auditing), after which they are purged on a recurring schedule. Transcribed text, scores, and verdicts may be retained longer as part of your debate history and our records, and certain cost/audit logs are retained for compliance. See the Privacy Policy and [DATA RETENTION PERIOD] for full retention details.

9.4 Texas CUBI / biometric handling. We do not create, capture, or use a "biometric identifier" (including a voiceprint) for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual within the meaning of the Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (CUBI), Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 503.001, and corresponding laws of other jurisdictions. Audio is processed for transcription and judging, not for biometric identification. If we ever introduce any feature that creates or uses a voiceprint or other biometric identifier, we will first provide notice, obtain your informed, express consent, disclose the specific purpose and the retention/destruction schedule, and destroy the biometric identifier within the period required by law (and in any event, under CUBI, within a reasonable time and no later than the first anniversary of the date the purpose for collection expires), and we will not sell, lease, or disclose it except as permitted by law.

9.5 Recording other people. Live debates and lobbies may involve other participants and spectators. You are responsible for ensuring you have any consents required by applicable wiretapping, eavesdropping, or recording laws (which in some jurisdictions require all-party consent) before recording, capturing, or re-sharing audio, video, or transcripts of other people obtained through the Service. You may not record, capture, reproduce, or distribute another participant's audio, video, or transcript outside the Service without their consent.

9.6 Video (Schools and certain debate rooms). Where live video is used (for example, in certain debate rooms or School deployments via our video provider), video and audio may be streamed and, where enabled, recorded. The same consent, purpose-limitation, retention, and third-party-processing principles in this Section and in the Privacy Policy apply.

9.7 Cross-reference. Voice, transcript, and video handling is further described in the Privacy Policy, which controls on data-protection details and lists our Subprocessors.

10. Privacy & Your Data Rights

10.1 Privacy Policy. Our collection, use, disclosure, and retention of Personal Data are described in our Privacy Policy, incorporated into these Terms by reference. Where the Privacy Policy and these Terms conflict on a data-protection matter, the Privacy Policy controls.

10.2 No sale of personal information. We do not sell your Personal Information, and we do not "share" it for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the CPRA (Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1798.100 et seq.). We do not sell or use student Personal Information for targeted advertising (Section 14.3).

10.3 U.S. privacy rights (TDPSA, CCPA/CPRA). Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, and obtain a portable copy of your Personal Data, to opt out of certain processing, and to be free from discrimination for exercising these rights, under laws including the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA) and the CCPA/CPRA. You can exercise applicable rights by contacting [PRIVACY EMAIL] or by using the in-product data export (Section 18.4) and account-deletion tools. We will honor verified requests and any appeal rights as required by law.

10.4 EU/UK rights (GDPR) and Brazil (LGPD). To the extent the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or Brazil's Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD) applies, you have the rights afforded under those laws (including access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, and, for GDPR, the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority and rights regarding automated decision-making). Where required, our EU/UK representative is listed in Section 26. We rely on lawful bases described in the Privacy Policy, including your consent (for example, for voice recording under Section 9) and our legitimate interests in operating the Service.

10.5 Mexico rights (LFPDPPP / ARCO). If you are in Mexico, you have ARCO rights (Acceso, Rectificación, Cancelación, Oposición) and related rights under the Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de los Particulares (LFPDPPP), including the right to limit the use or disclosure of your data and to revoke consent. Our privacy notice (aviso de privacidad) and the contact for exercising ARCO rights are described in the Privacy Policy and at [MEXICO PRIVACY CONTACT if any] / [PRIVACY EMAIL].

10.6 Automated decision-making. AI judging produces automated scores and verdicts (Section 8). These outcomes affect only your in-platform standing and Virtual Items and do not produce legal or similarly significant effects on you outside the Service; School credentials, where issued, are the School's determinations (Sections 8.4 and 14.4). Where applicable law grants rights regarding automated decision-making, those rights are addressed in the Privacy Policy.

11. Acceptable Use

11.1 AUP incorporated. Your use of the Service is governed by our Acceptable Use Policy, incorporated by reference. Without limiting the AUP, you agree not to:

(a) violate any law or these Terms, or infringe others' rights; (b) harass, threaten, defame, or abuse others, or post hateful, violent, sexually exploitative (including any content sexualizing minors), or self-harm-promoting content; (c) cheat, manipulate, or game debates, judging, XP, ranks, leaderboards, or awards, including via automation, multiple Accounts, or collusion; (d) attempt to defeat, manipulate, or reverse-engineer the AI judging, moderation, or anti-abuse systems, including by prompt injection; (e) upload malware, scrape without authorization, probe or breach security, or exceed rate limits or access controls; (f) impersonate others or misrepresent your identity, age, or affiliation; (g) misuse messaging, mentions, or referral features to spam or harvest data; or (h) use the Service to develop a competing product or to train machine-learning models on data obtained from the Service without our written permission.

11.2 Enforcement. We may investigate and take action under Sections 7.5 and 18, including content removal, feature restriction, suspension, or termination.

12. Subscriptions & Payments (debAIt+)

12.1 debAIt+. debAIt+ is an optional paid subscription that unlocks premium features (which may include AI practice mode, multi-part "sequel" debates, and custom topic selection). Features included in debAIt+ may change. Core debate functionality and video calls are not gated behind debAIt+ as of the Effective Date.

12.2 Price and billing period. debAIt+ costs [debAIt+ PRICE] (currently approximately USD $4.99 per month) per [BILLING PERIOD] (currently monthly), plus applicable taxes. Prices are shown at checkout and may vary by region and currency.

12.3 Auto-renewal — conspicuous disclosure (California ARL and general). YOUR debAIt+ SUBSCRIPTION AUTOMATICALLY RENEWS. Unless you cancel before the end of the current billing period, your subscription will automatically renew for successive [BILLING PERIOD] periods, and we (through our payment processor) will charge your payment method the then-current price on a recurring basis until you cancel. Before you are charged, the auto-renewal terms (price, billing frequency, and how to cancel) are presented to you in a clear and conspicuous manner, and by subscribing you affirmatively consent to them, consistent with the California Automatic Renewal Law (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 17600 et seq.) and similar state laws. After you subscribe, we will send an acknowledgment that includes the auto-renewal terms and cancellation instructions.

12.4 How to cancel (easy online cancellation). You may cancel at any time — by the same medium you used to subscribe — through the Stripe-powered billing portal accessible in your Account settings, or by contacting [SUPPORT EMAIL]. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period; you will retain access to debAIt+ features until then, and your subscription will be marked to not renew. Consistent with the ARL's easy-cancellation requirement, you may cancel online without additional steps and without having to speak to a representative.

12.5 Free trial. [FREE TRIAL TERMS]. If a free trial is offered, we will disclose, before you enroll, the trial length, the price and billing cadence that begin automatically after the trial unless you cancel, and how to cancel before charges begin, as required by the California ARL and similar laws.

12.6 Refunds. Except where required by applicable law, payments are non-refundable and there are no refunds or credits for partial billing periods, downgrades, or unused features. This does not limit any non-waivable statutory rights, including consumer-protection and refund rights under Mexican law (Section 12.10) and any mandatory withdrawal or refund rights in your jurisdiction.

12.7 Price changes. We may change subscription prices. We will give you advance notice of any price increase (by email and/or in-app) and, where required by law, obtain your affirmative consent before the increase takes effect. If you do not agree to the new price, you may cancel before it takes effect.

12.8 Stripe; payment data; taxes. Payments are processed by Stripe. By subscribing, you also agree to Stripe's applicable terms. We do not store your full card number, CVV, or complete payment history; we store only references (such as Stripe customer and subscription identifiers) and subscription status needed to operate your subscription. You authorize Stripe to charge your payment method. You are responsible for all applicable taxes, which may be added at checkout. If a payment fails, your subscription may be marked past-due and, after the period end, canceled or treated as inactive.

12.9 Beta / test-mode caveat. Billing and certain debAIt+ features may operate in beta or test mode, and an open-beta mode may make premium features available to all users without payment for a period. During any such period, features are provided without charge and without warranty, and may change or be withdrawn. When the open beta ends, premium features will be gated to active paid subscribers.

12.10 Mexican consumers. If you are a consumer in Mexico, you retain all rights under the Ley Federal de Protección al Consumidor and the protections enforced by PROFECO, including disclosure and cancellation rights, which cannot be waived by these Terms (Section 22.10).

13. Virtual Items, XP, Achievements & Awards

13.1 No monetary value. XP, levels, ranks, Elo ratings, achievements, unlockable avatars and frames, leaderboard positions, and monthly awards (collectively, "Virtual Items") have no cash or monetary value, are not currency or property, and cannot be redeemed, exchanged, sold, or transferred for money or anything of value.

13.2 Earned, not purchased. Virtual Items are earned through gameplay and platform activity and are not for sale. There is no purchase of, or trading in, Virtual Items.

13.3 Non-transferable; revocable; may change. Virtual Items are personal to your Account, non-transferable, and licensed (not sold) to you. We may modify, adjust, recalculate, reset, suspend, or revoke Virtual Items — including to correct errors, address cheating or abuse, reflect changes to the Service, or comply with law — and we may discontinue any Virtual Item program at any time. You have no vested or property right in any Virtual Item.

14. debAIt for Schools

14.1 Separate agreement. debAIt for Schools is licensed to educational institutions under a separate written school license agreement. In addition to these Terms, School use is governed by that agreement and by the Minors & Schools Addendum. In case of conflict for School deployments, the school license agreement controls over these consumer Terms.

14.2 School-administered Student accounts. Student accounts are created and administered under the School's authority. The School is responsible for obtaining all required authorizations and parental/guardian consents, for designating which adults (teachers, administrators) may access Student data, and for lawful use of Student data within its institution. Teachers may manage classrooms, assign debates, view gradebooks and reports, review moderation flags, and run tournaments and school events.

14.3 Student records — FERPA, SOPIPA, Texas student-data law. In providing the Schools product, debAIt acts as a service provider / school official processing student education records on the School's behalf and at its direction. We handle such records consistent with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 C.F.R. Part 99), including the "school official" exception where applicable; California's Student Online Personal Information Protection Act (SOPIPA); and Texas student-data-privacy law (Tex. Educ. Code § 32.151 et seq.). We do not sell student personal information, do not use it to build non-educational profiles, and do not use it for targeted advertising. Where applicable, COPPA consent is obtained as described in Section 3.3.

14.4 Credentials and grades. Where a School issues grades, diplomas, reports, or other credentials through the Service, those are the School's academic determinations. debAIt provides tools and AI-assisted inputs (including AI-generated student-report narratives), which are subject to the AI disclaimers in Section 8; the School is responsible for reviewing and adopting any credential or grade.

14.5 International student-data laws. For Schools or Students in other jurisdictions, additional laws may apply, including the GDPR (EU/UK), LGPD (Brazil), and Mexican LFPDPPP; the school license agreement and Privacy Policy address the corresponding roles and obligations.

15. Third-Party Services

15.1 Subprocessors and providers. The Service relies on third-party services to function. These currently include, without limitation: Supabase (authentication, database, storage, realtime), Stripe (payments), OpenAI (speech-to-text transcription and content moderation), Anthropic (AI judging and coaching), LiveKit (video/voice rooms and recording), Resend (transactional email), Vercel (hosting), Railway (realtime socket transport), Google/Discord (OAuth sign-in), and Google Trends RSS (topic sourcing; no user data sent). Our current list of Subprocessors and the categories of data shared is maintained in the Privacy Policy.

15.2 Their terms govern their processing. Third-Party Services are governed by their own terms and privacy policies, including OpenAI's and Anthropic's data-processing terms and Stripe's terms. We are not responsible for Third-Party Services, their availability, or their acts or omissions, except to the extent provided in our data-processing arrangements with them and except where applicable non-waivable law provides otherwise. Your use of features that rely on a Third-Party Service constitutes your acceptance that the relevant data is processed as described in the Privacy Policy.

15.3 Third-party links and content. The Service may contain links to or content from third parties that we do not control and do not endorse.

16. Intellectual Property

16.1 Our IP. The Service, including its software, design, text, graphics, the "debAIt" name and logos, and all related intellectual property, is owned by debAIt or its licensors and is protected by intellectual-property laws. Except for the limited license in Section 6 and your rights in your own User Content, no rights are granted to you.

16.2 Trademarks. "debAIt" and our logos are our trademarks. You may not use them without our prior written permission. Other names and marks are the property of their respective owners.

16.3 AI Output ownership. As between you and debAIt, and subject to third-party-provider terms and applicable law, AI Output generated for your debates (such as your transcript, your scores, and your verdicts) is made available to you for use within the Service as described in these Terms. We retain rights in the underlying systems, prompts, models, and platform content. Generated topics, briefs, and platform content remain part of the Service.

17. Feedback

If you send us suggestions, ideas, or feedback about the Service ("Feedback"), you grant debAIt a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully sublicensable and transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, and exploit the Feedback for any purpose without obligation or compensation to you. You represent you have the right to provide the Feedback.

18. Suspension & Termination

18.1 By you. You may stop using the Service at any time and may delete your Account through the in-app deletion flow (which requires Username confirmation) or by contacting [SUPPORT EMAIL]. Account deletion is irreversible and cascades the deletion of your linked data, except records we retain for legal, security, audit, or dispute-resolution purposes (including immutable verdict records and forensic logs). Canceling debAIt+ is described in Section 12.4.

18.2 By us. We may suspend or terminate your access, or remove Content, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms, the AUP, or applicable law; to protect the Service, other users, or third parties; to respond to legal process; or if providing the Service to you becomes impractical or unlawful. Where practicable and not legally or security-restricted, we will give notice and, for material terminations not based on your breach, a reasonable opportunity to export your data.

18.3 Effect of termination. On termination: your license under Section 6 ends; you must stop using the Service; and Sections that by their nature should survive (including 2, 7.1–7.7, 8, 9.2–9.5, 10, 12.6, 13, 15.2, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, and 26) survive. Termination does not entitle you to a refund except as required by law (Section 12.6) or, for paid subscriptions terminated by us without cause, a pro-rata refund of pre-paid, unused fees where required by law.

18.4 Data export. Before deletion, you may request a copy of your data through the in-app export feature, which returns your profile, posts, comments, debates, friendships, follows, messages, and notifications. Exports may occasionally be partial if a sub-query fails, in which case we and you are notified and you may request assistance.

19. Disclaimers of Warranties

19.1 AS IS / AS AVAILABLE. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY STATED AND TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE, INCLUDING ALL AI OUTPUT, IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE.

19.2 No warranty of results. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE; THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED; THAT AI OUTPUT (INCLUDING TRANSCRIPTIONS, SCORES, MODERATION, OR VERDICTS) WILL BE ACCURATE, COMPLETE, UNBIASED, OR RELIABLE; OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS.

19.3 Statutory exceptions. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits warranties or rights that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including non-waivable consumer rights under Mexican law (PROFECO / Ley Federal de Protección al Consumidor).

20. Limitation of Liability

20.1 Exclusion of indirect damages. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, debAIt AND ITS OFFICERS, MEMBERS, EMPLOYEES, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, REPUTATION, OR STANDING (including XP, ranks, or awards), OR FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING FROM AI OUTPUT, A VERDICT, A MODERATION DECISION, OR RELIANCE ON THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY.

20.2 Aggregate cap. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, debAIt's TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (a) THE TOTAL AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO debAIt FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, OR (b) USD $100.

20.3 Carve-outs. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION LIMITS LIABILITY THAT CANNOT BE LIMITED BY LAW, INCLUDING LIABILITY FOR GROSS NEGLIGENCE, WILLFUL MISCONDUCT, FRAUD, DEATH OR PERSONAL INJURY CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE, OR ANY OTHER LIABILITY THAT APPLICABLE LAW DOES NOT PERMIT TO BE EXCLUDED OR CAPPED.

20.4 Mexican and other non-waivable rights preserved. IF YOU ARE A CONSUMER WHOSE LAW DOES NOT PERMIT THESE EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS — INCLUDING CONSUMERS IN MEXICO UNDER THE LEY FEDERAL DE PROTECCIÓN AL CONSUMIDOR / PROFECO — THOSE NON-WAIVABLE RIGHTS APPLY AND PREVAIL OVER THIS SECTION TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED.

20.5 Basis of the bargain. The disclaimers and limitations in Sections 19 and 20 are a fundamental basis of the bargain between you and debAIt and apply to the maximum extent permitted by law.

21. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless debAIt and its officers, members, employees, and agents from and against any claims, damages, liabilities, losses, and reasonable expenses (including attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) your User Content; (b) your use or misuse of the Service; (c) your violation of these Terms or the AUP; (d) your violation of any law or any third party's rights, including recording or privacy rights of other participants (Section 9.5); or (e) your breach of any representation or warranty. We may assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification, in which case you will cooperate with us. This Section does not apply to the extent a claim arises from our gross negligence or willful misconduct, and does not apply to consumers to the extent prohibited by applicable non-waivable consumer law (including Mexican law). Indemnification by minors is limited as set out in Section 22.9.

22. Dispute Resolution & Arbitration

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY — IT AFFECTS YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS. For most adult users in the United States, it requires individual arbitration, waives the right to a jury trial, and waives class actions. You may opt out within 30 days (Section 22.7). Different rules apply to minors (Section 22.9) and Mexican consumers (Section 22.10).

22.1 Governing law. These Terms and any dispute are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, USA, and applicable U.S. federal law (including the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. §§ 1 et seq.), without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. This choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer-protection provisions of the law where you reside that cannot be derogated from by agreement.

22.2 Informal resolution first (30-day notice). Before starting any arbitration or court action, you and we agree to first attempt to resolve the dispute informally for at least 30 days. Send a written notice describing the dispute and the relief sought to [LEGAL/NOTICE EMAIL] (or, for debAIt to you, to your Account email). The parties will negotiate in good faith. This requirement is a condition precedent to commencing arbitration; any applicable limitations period is tolled during this period.

22.3 Small-claims carve-out. Either party may bring an individual claim in a small-claims court with jurisdiction, instead of arbitration, so long as the matter stays in that court and is brought only on an individual (non-class) basis.

22.4 Binding individual arbitration; jury-trial waiver (adult U.S. users). Except for the carve-outs in Sections 22.3, 22.5, 22.9, and 22.10, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service that is not resolved informally will be resolved by final and binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect. You and debAIt each waive the right to a trial by jury and to participate in a class action. The arbitration will be seated in [COUNTY], Texas, though you may elect to appear by telephone, video, or written submissions where the rules allow. The arbitrator has exclusive authority to resolve threshold questions of arbitrability, except that a court decides the enforceability of the class-action waiver in Section 22.8. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. The arbitrator may award the same individual relief a court could.

22.5 Equitable and IP relief; non-arbitrable matters. Notwithstanding the above, either party may seek injunctive or other equitable relief, and relief for actual or threatened infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property, and any other non-arbitrable matter, in the state and federal courts located in [COUNTY], Texas, to which the parties consent to personal jurisdiction and venue.

22.6 Arbitration costs. Payment of filing, administration, and arbitrator fees is governed by the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules. Where those rules or applicable law require, we will pay or advance such fees. Each party otherwise bears its own attorneys' fees and costs, except as the arbitrator may award under applicable law.

22.7 30-day right to opt out of arbitration. You may opt out of the arbitration agreement in Section 22.4 and the class-action waiver in Section 22.8 by sending written notice within 30 days of first accepting these Terms (or of first becoming subject to this arbitration provision) to [LEGAL/NOTICE EMAIL], stating your name, Username, and a clear statement that you opt out of arbitration. Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms and will not adversely affect your use of the Service.

22.8 Class-action and class-arbitration waiver. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you and debAIt agree that each may bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims or preside over any class or representative proceeding. If this waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim or remedy, that claim or remedy (and only that claim or remedy) will proceed in court, and the remainder of this Section continues to apply.

22.9 Minors / guardian handling. Arbitration agreements and class-action waivers may be voidable by, or unenforceable against, minors. Accordingly: (a) any claim brought on behalf of a minor must be brought by the minor's parent or legal guardian; (b) for Schools, the contracting adult is the School and/or parent/guardian, not the Student; and (c) to the extent the arbitration agreement or class waiver is unenforceable against a minor under applicable law, those provisions do not apply to that minor, and disputes involving that minor will proceed in the courts identified in Section 22.5. Nothing here waives any right that a minor cannot waive by law.

22.10 Mexican consumers (PROFECO non-waiver). If you are a consumer located in Mexico, nothing in this Section 22 waives, limits, or overrides your non-waivable rights under the Ley Federal de Protección al Consumidor and the jurisdiction of PROFECO. You may pursue available conciliation, arbitration, or other remedies before PROFECO and the competent Mexican consumer-protection authorities and courts, notwithstanding the governing-law, arbitration, and venue provisions above. The arbitration agreement in Section 22.4 does not apply to you to the extent it conflicts with those non-waivable rights.

22.11 Time to file. To the extent permitted by applicable law and except where a longer non-waivable period applies (including under Mexican consumer law), any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service must be filed within one (1) year after it accrues, or it is permanently barred.

22.12 Survival; severability. This Section survives termination. If any portion (other than the class-action waiver, governed by Section 22.8) is found unenforceable, the remainder remains in effect.

23. Changes to the Terms

23.1 We may modify these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide reasonable notice (for example, by email, in-app notice, or by posting the updated Terms with a new "Effective Date") before they take effect, except that changes required for legal or security reasons may take effect immediately.

23.2 Continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree, you must stop using the Service and may delete your Account. Where applicable law requires affirmative consent to a change (including certain price changes under Section 12.7 or material changes affecting consumers), we will obtain it.

24. Notices & How We Contact You

24.1 Notices to you. We may send notices to you by email (to your Account email), by in-app message or notification, or by posting on the Service. You are responsible for keeping your email current and for checking notices. Subject to your notification preferences and quiet-hours settings, and to applicable law (including CAN-SPAM, 15 U.S.C. §§ 7701 et seq.), we may send transactional, service, and (with any required consent) promotional messages; promotional emails will include an unsubscribe mechanism, which we will honor. Transactional and service messages are necessary to operate the Service and may not be opted out of while you maintain an Account.

24.2 Notices to us. Legal notices to debAIt must be sent to [LEGAL/NOTICE EMAIL] and, where these Terms require, to [REGISTERED ADDRESS]. Copyright notices go to the DMCA agent in Section 7.7. Privacy requests go to [PRIVACY EMAIL].

25. General

25.1 Assignment. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your Account without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms, in whole or in part, including in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets.

25.2 Severability. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary or severed, and the remaining provisions remain in full force (subject to Section 22.8).

25.3 No waiver. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later. Waivers must be in writing to be effective.

25.4 Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, the AUP, the Minors & Schools Addendum, any school license agreement, and any additional terms presented for specific features, constitute the entire agreement between you and debAIt regarding the Service and supersede prior agreements on that subject.

25.5 Force majeure. We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, civil unrest, labor disputes, governmental action, internet or utility failures, or failures of Third-Party Services.

25.6 Export control and sanctions. You represent that you are not located in, and will not use the Service in, any country or by any person subject to U.S. export controls or economic sanctions in violation of applicable law, and that you are not on any U.S. government restricted-party list. You agree to comply with applicable export-control and sanctions laws.

25.7 Relationship. No partnership, joint venture, agency, or employment relationship is created by these Terms.

25.8 Governing language (English controls). These Terms are written in English. Any Spanish or other translation is provided for convenience only; in the event of any conflict or inconsistency, the English version controls, except where applicable mandatory law (including Mexican consumer-protection law) requires the local-language version to govern for consumers in that jurisdiction.

26. Contact

[LEGAL ENTITY NAME] [REGISTERED ADDRESS] Website: https://getdebait.com Support: [SUPPORT EMAIL] Legal / Notices: [LEGAL/NOTICE EMAIL] Privacy: [PRIVACY EMAIL] DMCA Agent: [DMCA AGENT NAME] — [DMCA EMAIL] EU/UK Representative (if any): [EU REPRESENTATIVE if any] Mexico Privacy Contact (if any): [MEXICO PRIVACY CONTACT if any]

debAIt — Terms of Service — Version 1.1 — Effective [EFFECTIVE DATE]. English-language version controls.